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cen months, and
~ 'O-Ai1i-' they bave weighed,
I am told. about SIO0On0,00O. They are
six feet high. a round brass rod upholds
them and the frame work is of mahogany.
They are SO finely hung that in n draft of
81 900 the loss of ten cents worth of silver
can be detected. They cost 81 800. The sill
Yer Is thrown into 4 sort of a bowl like scoop,
which looks much like a brass wash basin.
If the weight Is more or less than the esti-
mate the money has TO be counted, and when
the new treasurer Is appointed every dollar in
the treasury will have to be gone over again,
as It WAS when Mr. Jordan came in. IL took
forty expert counters and a number Of clerks
nearly three weeks to count the paper money
III the treasury then, and it took over a weeI,
I" count the gold and silver i'll the vaults.
The count at this time will lie much longer,
as there Is more money to he counted.
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This big vault is one story below the level
of the street, and | asked the assistant treas
urer whether he was not afraiI that it might
be robbed. He replied: No! The vault
rests on a solid foundation of stone and
cement, and its floor is made of six inches
Of chilled iron and steel, the walls are of
thick masonry, and there are passages
around the whole of it. 1t would not be pos
siblc to tunnel under the treasury from the
outside except at an immense expense, run
ming high into the thousands and tens of
thousands of dollars. Watchmen are present
at all times, and touch of an electric bell
would summon the guards from all quarters
of the treasury TO the vault. This hlg vault
has double doors. Its walls are four feet
thick and of solid granite, and the safe doors
are fastened by time locks of such Il charac-
ter that they are safe from dynamite. The
vaults of the treasury have never been rifed
i'll any way. and during eleven Years not
dollar has been lost"
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l saw Ben Butler the other day. What
q curious old codger he is He
wore heavy fur OvercOat, which
was wrapped about his form like an
old wOmans cloak, and he had a fur
cap pulled down almost to the edge of his
cooked eye. He was laughing heartily and
his great abdomen was shaking like bowl of
jelly when | saw him. / was talking to
Tennessee congressman as lie passed me, and
the congressman asked NE if had ever heard
of the letter which the Hon Robert L.
governor of Massachusetts. Said he: But
Ter was not at all liked i'll Tennessee, and after
the war closed there was probably no name
more OdiOuS than his. Looney is a very
prominent Democrat of Memphis, and he has
been talked of as a candidate for United
States senator. He denounced Butler up TO
the time OF his election as governor of MasSa-
chuSetts, and then was so glad over the defeat
of the Republicans that he fOrgave him. He
wrote to Butler congratulating him as fol
lows:
Governor Benjamin F. Butler:
"W:. Tennesseeans all thank God you have been
elected. If you did steal them SPOONS you
welcome to keep them. ''R l. LOONEY.
"The most applause | ever heard at n
circus in Tennessee, the congressman went on,
occurred in response to joke on Ben Butler
and his spoons. The circus is attended by all
classes III Tennessee, and the people go to
it rs freely as they do to the theaters in the
north. At this circus one of the features
was a cage of performing rats. There was n
long pole placed upon couple of chairs, and
at the end of this, with doors opening out
upon it, was placed little pigeon box made
up of four or five compartments, with hole IN
each facing the pole. The Snowman stood at
the other end of the pole from the box, and
after dilating on the wonder he was about
to show, he waved his wand and said: Gen.
Robert E Lee come forth At this n big
gray rat came out of one of the holes, walked
Sedately from one end of the pole to the other
and back again into his hole. Then the
Snowman said: Gen. Stonewall jackson
come forth A second rat RESPONDED from n
second hole, and went through lie same per
formance. Gen. Joe Johnston, Gen. Grant
and or two others Were. n tho
same way, and then the Snowman said: i
will now show you the greatest curiosity
of them all. Gen. Ben Butler, we want
to see YOU At this an old gray rat with
a shaved head and painted eye came out with
a little spoon i'll his mouth, and trotted up the
pole The audience went wild. They ell
cOred the rat Ben Butler again and again, and
it was the greatest feature of the circus"
l heard a good story of Postmaster Gen
eraI Villas Yesterday Representative Carrie
ton, of Michigan, had had some trouble in
regard to a postal clerk i'll his district, AMI
the man had been removed, l think at his
suggestion. Villas, to Carleton's surprise, ap
pointed a man from another district, and
Carleton, in company with Representatives
Maybury and Timothy Tarseney, had come
to protest against the appointment. Villas.
however, seemed Obdurate, and he would not
last Timothy Tarseney, who has made such
reputation Us a wit, leaned over from his
chair, and looking Villas straight i'll tho eye,
said: Mr. William NilaS | know only one
story that fits this case, and that is one which
relates to political convention IN Illinois i'll
which Bill Morrison was leading figure.
Morrison had adopted Il policy which was
contrary to the opinions Of his friends. lie
was obstinate i'll it and no one could move
him. At last an old IriShman, who had long
,,cen n friend of Morrison and who had al
ways voted with him, came up to him. He
threw his arm around Morrison's shoulder
and said: See here, Bill, you know l am
wild We, and you know l am wild We whether
we're right or wrong (and here Timothy
leaned still closer to ViIaS; but, Bill, try
and He right this time"
Villas saw the point and leaned back in his
chair, roaring with laughter. The story put
him i'll such q good Eumor that he changed
the appointment and gave it to one of Carrie
tons friends FRANK g. CARPENTER
1t is amusing to note that the
present administration, after all it's
efforts to make capital against pre-
ceding ones on account OF their fail
ure in naval construction, has made
the most signal failure of all. 1t has
built the Atlanta ON principles of '.re-
form" SO remarkable that her guns
prove to be far more dangerous to
her crew than they could possibly be
to an enemy The New York Tribune
says: The most unfortunate feature
of the case is the fact that the late
John Roach did not make either guns,
carriges or tracks, and consequently
the responsibility for the wretched
blunderinS cannot be shifted to the
shoulders of the last republican ad-
ministration. The present admins
tration has been 'monkeying' with
these carriges and tracks for over q
year. and the guns cannot now be
fired without wrecking the ship"
This is reform administration"
Mr.. &. Jensen has an agency tor the
Reuner Combined Alarm ard Door Bell,
which he is prepared to sell TO customers
on short notice. He viii so0n call on